mayor of michigan. she points out you can read more from the a section today of the "new york times" h we're asking about the tax something that tp is going to be talking about tomorrow in a rose garden ceremony covering the event in which he's going to outline specifically how to pay for this $447 billion package that the president outlined in general terms in his speech before a joint session of congress as we said at the top of the program the president is going to be back in ohio again this week. he was in columbus, ohio last week, he will be in cincinnati this week talking about a bridge that needs to be repaired saying that under this plan that bridge would be fixed. of course there is a political connection to all of this because ohio the home state of the speaker of the house john boehner and the bridge connects to covington, kentucky, which is the home state of the republican leader in the u.s. senate mitch mcconnell. joining us from queens, new york. welcome to the conversation. independent li